economics belongs
to the people
economics isn’t
chance
economics has a heart,
a soul & muscular
guts
economics isn’t greedy
competition––
it’s confidence, competence,
cooperation &
trust––
a human
world yearning to
grow
economics is one rock
fitting firmly on top
of another to build
a stone wall
it is corn leaping upward
in the night
it is the granite
mountain
of promises
that won’t go
away
it is the craft of angels
that creates
what never
was––
the reason why everything is balanced
in harmony on
a twirling sphere
it is the sign of plenty
not the synonym of
want
one day there’s enough
the next day there’s
more
economics is the visceral
wisdom of humanity inclusive of
animals, plants, air, water, rocks, minerals
& dreams
it is the womb of
breathing earth
where
every moment is an investment
in forever
we are here because evolution
moves forward, because
entropy is denied, because
every particle of
every atom that fills
us
does not know
time
earthquakes, tornadoes, meteors, volcanoes,
floods, drought & pestilence
have their give & take
in the equilibrium of
things
economics is the mark
of birth & death
in the book of
eternity
what in this human-
dominated world is
uncorrupted by
our hands?
we are nature’s spoiled
children
how did we happen to discover
greed? did we ourselves invent
selfishness?
how did we learn to kill
so many of our own
& of every kind?
what God could have
taught us
to steal & to
plunder?
& where did we find
that deceptive word,
“mine?”
is economics is merely
about ‘me?’ that weary
traveler without a
name
is it naïve to hope
that the force of
economics is sharing?
the way the lion shares the
savanna with the
antelope? the way
water shares
wetness? The way
this entire universe inhabits a single
sky?
economics is the truth & the light of
our earth-house-hold & of
the stars
we forget & ignore our
blessings
at our world’s great
sorrow